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Street Fighter IV (PS3) | 
| From: Capcom
Category: Video Games
List Price: £39.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 102
Format: Unknown Format
Platform: Playstation 3
Media: Video Game
Operating System: No Operating System
EAN: 5050053610249
ASIN: B001FSJ9NA
Release Date: February 20, 2009 (In 42 Days)
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Availability: Not yet released
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Familiar January 4, 2009
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're a fan of the older games, you'll drop right in and enjoy yourself; the classic six-button controls feel perfect, and as you take different characters through Arcade mode, you'll unlock alumni who didn't appear in the coin-op edition, like Cammy, Rose, and Dan. Everyone looks as you remember them, only better. Exaggerated new facial animations make every attack look like it really hurts, and the game's distinctive painted graphic style gives it the classy look of an interactive work of art.
Contests are still decided as best-of-three rounds with a time limit on individual bouts and a big old health bar running across the top of the screen. There are still six attack buttons - light, medium and hard of both punch and kick. Being KO'ed without landing a blow is still depressing.
Another obvious element of the screen furniture is the Revenge meter - a little C-shape at the end of your health bar - which fills up in segments as you take damage from enemies. This obviously isn't great news, but the benefit of it is that it enables you to perform Ultra attacks rather than just Supers; Ultras are far more punishing and spectacular, and activate by pressing two attack buttons instead of one at the end of the Super joystick sequence. Ken's Ultra is a fireball and spinning flaming dragon-punch attack that made me laugh so hard that I then lost the bout, which is pretty impressive considering how decisive an Ultra's meant to be. Super and Revenge meters both reset at the start of each bout, so there's no pointing saving things up.
There are a lot of other familiar elements making a comforting return, too. Birds still spin around your head when you're dizzied, Japanese shouting fills the air, and then there are other eye-catchers like Guile's airstrip level - now with GIs standing around reacting to the action, and a military transport plane being towed across the background.
Those backgrounds in general are rich with detail, and nice and colourful.Thighs and muscles may be a bit disproportionate, but they're consistently disproportionate in the sort of way that looks correct overall, and backed up by terrific collision detection and flashy effects and camera spins for specials and particularly Supers and Ultras. Throws look great, and there are some nice animation flourishes, like Chun-Li spinning her legs around like a helicopter in the split-second before she springs back to her feet once downed. A smooth 60 frames-per-second, too. I can't imagine anybody looking at the game in person and not finding it a bit dazzling.
Being a fan since arcade, this game has proved it wont dissapoint either.
Street Fighter IV January 1, 2009
0 out of 9 found this review helpful
It's finally here...Street Fighter IV!!! Need I say more? Who here has not ever played Street Fighter? Everyone has. This is the most eagerly anticipated beat'em up game for a very very very long time and trust me, it may not be 2-D but this is 2-D with a 3-D twist and it is awesome! The king of beat'em up's is back with a huge bang!
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